The work of Jaye Alison Moscariello, Abstract Memories: Envisioning Emotional

Connections Between Objects, Time, Memory, and Experience, opened on January

31st. (The artist goes by Jaye Alison.) We hope everyone noted the date and time,

either in last month’s Monterey News and enjoyed

her reception on January 31st! Even if you missed the opening, please check out

the exhibit before it closes on March 8th.

Alison’s work is inspired by her bi-coastal exposure to recent currents, specifically

her exposure to and observations of fear, hurt, injustice, and pain. Raised in New

England, Alison lived on the West Coast for several years, during which she

stored her possessions in Connecticut. When she returned to the East and

unpacked her belongings, the artist reports that her memories and emotions

overtook her. Reviewing objects; art, photos, clothing, books and music was an

intense experience.

Her return to New England was provocative in other ways: disturbed by the

increase of hate crimes toward African American, Gay, Jewish and Asian people,

she sought to “pour all of that input: fear, hurts, injustices, and painful memories

into my pigment, and transmute it into something that I hoped would become

beautiful,” the artist reports.

Please join us at Know Gallery to see Abstract Memories and learn for yourselves

how the artist translated her intense experiences into 2-deminsional images.

For more about the artist, we encourage you to check out her website at

https://www.jayesplacegallery.com/